v0.1.1 - React Migration & Architecture Update
A major internal update focused on maintainability, performance and long-term scalability.
While this release introduces a small user-facing feature, it completely modernizes Bismuth's frontend architecture and significantly improves the backend structure for future development.
What's New
Features:
- Automatic reopening of the last active Workspace on startup
- Improve startup workflow and session continuity
Improvements
- Frontend migrated from vanilla JavaScript to React
- Rust backend refactored into modular components
- Improved state management and UI rendering flow
- Enhanced overall application responsiveness
- Cleaner project structure for future feature development
- Improved maintainability and code organization
Stability
- Fixed multiple layout and rendering issues introduced during migration
- Resolved React integration bugs
- Resolved Rust configuration issues
- Improved application reliability across Windows and Linux
Current Feature Set
- Workspace creation and management
- File and folder CRUD operations
- Persistent note storage
- File explorer with tree navigation
- Recent workspaces home screen
- Dark and light themes
- Local-first filesystem architecture
- Cross-platform support (Windows & Linux)
Coming Next
- Export system (PDF, Markdown, HTML)
- Markdown rendering improvements
- Search capabilities
- Graph view
- PTY terminal integration
- Additional workspace productivity features
Notes
This release focuses on establishing a solid foundation for future development. The migration to React and backend modularization will make future features significantly easier to implement and maintain.